Centuries of unbridled theft perpetrated by sociopathic psychopaths to the detriment of us, the humans.

The “Commonwealth”, a fig leaf to define the peaceful countries with millenary traditions that the British (or Brutish?) invaded, ransacked, famished and destroyed.

The same Brutish which Union Jack flew from the slave trade caravels.

The same Brutish that exterminated with lead bullets and biological warfare millions of Native Americans.

The same Brutish that defined the Aboriginal Australians as fauna and kept them in chains.

The same Brutish that invented and applied apartheid and imprisoned Nelson Mandela for decades.

The same Brutish that spawned a mentality that led one of them, improperly gifted the title of statesman, to say “I abhor the Indians, they’re beastly people” or “I find the Irish odd, they refuse to be British”.

The same Brutish that are pushing the UK down the Brexit ravine, blindfolded.

Should I continue?

It’s time for their last easy victim, feeding them with billions stolen from our natural resources and wasted in eternal warfare, to scroll these parasites off its back.

Scottish Independence will starve the leeches, and they will fall off, empty and withered.

It’s no longer time for dilly-dallying and easy does it. We need to save the planet from this umpteen nasty, vile (de)generation of demented inbred sub-humans, laying waste here and abroad.

Our poorest living now under this Tory government are at the poorest they have ever been since the welfare state was created more than 70 years ago.

A great many people in Scotland have nothing to eat tonight, absolutely nothing, those that are sanctioned have no money at all in their pocket or purse and are relying on foodbanks, family or friends to help them out and prevent them and their children living with hunger.

Many of their family and friends have absolutely nothing either and this is a problem resulting in broken marriages, depression and suicides. The welfare state has been destroyed under this Tory rule since 2010 and by Blair/Brown before them. There is no longer a “safety net” and any of us could end up in the same boat.

Our disabled are losing their motability cars and many are having to find new roofs over their heads since being subject to the Bedroom Tax and having their housing benefit cut meaning they could no longer afford the rent. This is the policies of only the most cruel, they have no heart and no shame. Sociopaths.

The Scottish government have mitigated as best they can against these Dickensian policies while the Scottish block grant under the Barnett formula is being slashed by Westminster over many years now. That is a fantastic achievement, why so many fail to see this is as a result of our media. The bastards.

I’ve never been a member of the SNP nor even voted for them until the GE in 2015. I’m glad I have done so and will continue to do so until Scotland gains Independence or I die first, they are the only party trying to alleviate the real suffering that our poorest and disabled are facing in a Tory ruled Britain led by the self appointed elite.

The SNP are the only party that will free us from the tyranny of a Tory government that robs the poor to reward the rich. Did anyone really expect May to follow through on her promise to crack down on the “fat cats”? If so, then you have been deluded. The only cracking down that is set to continue is on welfare and the NHS in order that our rulers can gain even more. Vampires.

We will all suffer as a result of policies such as these, for Scotland a vote for Independence is the only escape possible.

Let’s not forget the “roll out” of the disastrous Universal Credit system will ensure more hungry people suffering great distress and want as they wait 6 to 9 weeks for their benefit payments. Every SNP response to these measures has been ignored.

Eat or rack up rent arrears is not a good choice is it? And eviction for the wrong choice.

Tories are despicable, aided, it must be said, by a Labour party which does not vote against Tory austerity measures.

Maybe one day these spineless b/rds will find a backbone to crawl up ,you cant shame them , embarrass them, or sack them ,
Even when presented with their outright hostility over the forth crossing , they still lie ,these scabby excuses for people have the brass neck to take money under false pretenses, thats called theft .

because of our now corrupt media this won’t be on a front page , tv news bulletin , radio broadcast ever , joe public won’t see it

Only Misreporting Scotland could turn a good news story into yet another ‘bash the SNP story.’David Henderson finds a lecturer from Napier Uni in Edinburgh to come up with a ‘has this money been well spent tho?’ story.Prof Eejit fae Napier reckons if the Scots Gov wants to improve economic performance in Scotland (which it IS doing anyway) the money could have been better spent on education.

Presumably he has patented a new design for amphibious trucks so the Queensferry Crossing isn’t needed.Bawbag!

@ sassenach 6.40pm Alas your hopes will be dashed altho Nicola will have plenty ammunition & many Independinistas would like her to fire on all cylinders its not Nicola’s style of debating .
All we can hope for is Kezia /Ruthie /Wee Wullie wind Nicola up then we might see Wee Nippy come oot.

Ian McCubbin, I take it you noticed that World Bankers
,AKA, Criminals and Thieves, held their recent meeting in Jackson’s Hole,Wyoming which was most apt given that it was the old Outlaws, Murders and Thieves hide out in the ‘Bad Lands’ of the Old Wild, Wild, West.

If the latest United Nations report, which outlines that the Tories have created a human catastrophe in the UK due to their welfare reforms, doesn’t have impact on these monsters nothing will.

Meanwhile I’ve just been reading the National article ‘Ministers urged to back £5 child benefit top up’. Sorry can’t post as I’m on my IPad.

It reads Scottish ministers are coming under renewed pressure to use new Welfare powers to top up child benefit by £5 and help take 30,000 children out of poverty.

The Catholic Church has joined with the Church of Scotland, the Child Poverty Action Group and Sir Harry Burns the former Chief Medical Officer of Scotland to back the ‘Give me Five’ campaign which launches nationally tomorrow………

However the Scottish Government says it would cost about a quarter of a billion pounds to implement and only £3 out of every £10 would go to the households in poverty.

The SG’s own most recent statistics suggest that there are now more than 260,000 children living in relative poverty, after housing costs – about a quarter of all Scottish children. The majority in homes where the adults are working.

And then comment after comment from Bishop this or that and the results of a Survation poll, such as two thirds of Scots are in favour of Holyrood increasing child benefits. Then there’s four paragraphs of Kezia Dugdale bleating on about the situation. The SG should use their powers and stating as one example that “the rise in the number of youngsters living in poverty should “shock” the Scottish Government into increasing child benefit payments. Scotland should be the best place in the world to live, work, grow up and grow old in – and that starts with a fairer country. There’s more from her but you get the gist.

The SG point out massive Westminster cuts since 2010, mitigating the worst of Welfare reforms etc. Bottom line as far as I can see is that the SG doesn’t have the resources to deal with this and Kezia Dugdale is a despicable wee BritNat *rse that constantly puts her party before the people. There’s more to say about her and her party but I’d better leave it until I calm down.

It may be about to get worse! I read recently (can’t remember where) that all the clean above board regulated financial activity will leave London for Frankfurt. However, the same companies will concentrate all they dodgy high risk low regulation activities outside the EU in London.

Let’s hope Scotland is not part of the UK next time Westminster needs to bailout its shady bankers.

iScotland could have a healthy and lucrative financial sector … but we should have the good sense to ensure it’s strictly regulated and kept in check!

Why would anybody except a cretin or greedy selfish bastard be surprised by the two (identical) faces of English tory rule? only a cretinous greedy bastard perhaps?

Well, we have 3/4 of a million of them living amongst us who voted for these vermin in the last few months. Vermin who have destroyed people literally by suicide ( latest estimate 4000) after being found ‘fit to work’ by the DWP. Add in the shortened life spans of those living on less than poverty benefits and or minimum wages, or the iniquity of zero hour contracts.

Walk through our streets littered with human castaways lying like beached driftwood begging to enable them a hot meal and a bed. The mentally ill and the emotionally damaged desperately awaiting the trickle down effect that will never come.Food banks for working people and an NHS poised to be swallowed up in the impending deals that Orange Hitler and the tory swine and their mates are waiting to clinch with their grubby bloodstained paws.

Meanwhile, Tommy Shepherd flies the latest kite on behalf of the SNP. More delays…more body swerves by our National party. The one that seems uneasy with its own title. I answered Tommy’s questionnaire recently knowing full well that the info all goes up the way..but the feedback no longer comes back down…all we get is obfuscation…silence in the face of Tory fascist action…contradictory, illogical, but always inexorably aimed at destroying us economically, culturally and even as a name.

We have 3/4 million others…SLAB voters….ostriches and fearties caught up in straw clutching knee jerks voting for ‘Labour’…but which one?.. ‘Loyal’ Kezia sleeping with the enemy or Jeremy toon clock Corbyn English imperialist and lover ofall the world’s oppressed except for guess who?..aye us.

So what do we have we to do to get these people on our side? Well how about standing up and demanding our voice is heard NOW. After all, if
NOW IS NOT THE TIME…when FFS is it? People say bide your time..it will all come good..if we go too soon, we’ll have lost forever, or a generation. Well we lost one battle but even if we lose another, it won’t stop, we will go on until we win. We must win. Our very existence as a nation is at stake and unless we stand up and be counted we dont deserve to exist.

Wait too long and it’s very possible they’ll pull another snap stunt and pull us out of the EU without any deal reneging on the ‘bill’ owed and getting totally into bed with good old USA.And where does that leave us?

Tam the Bam – I’m of an age when living in rural Scotland we only had ‘plain bread’
I remember my mother making sandwiches for visitors, she’d pile the whole lot together then saw off the crusts with her big bread knife – wholesale yummies for kids. (every crust having a wee bit something from the prepared sandwich)

So there are perhaps 4 aspects of Independence – internal to Scotland, the rest of the UK, the EU and the Rest of the World. And to get the YES vote people have different priorities, but all have to be addressed in a way.

The rest of the World is the easiest, yes we’ll trade with the rest of the world and play our part in global politics. The second is harder because of the leavers, and the case does have to be made for the EU if it’s to be part of Independence. There’s a lot of misinformation and that has to be tackled. Meanwhile Scotland is set to be dragged out of it, whether we want to, or not. And then we’d have to set up our own trade deals if we’re not in the EU. Or have a lesser load of trade deals via EFTA, or just plain old unfavourable and complicated WTO. Which, for some extraordinary reason, seems to be what the UK would settle for.

The rest of the UK – and do we really want to continue a relationship with Westminster where we are bound by what they do, rather than look on as a neighbouring country, that’s tackled by this sort of article, and the Tories are definitely our best allies in this! They just can’t help themselves, it’s in their genes to be arrogant, cruel and merciless. We’re peasants, they’re the lairds. We’ll just dig up that field for them when they want us to, and they’ll pay us IF they want to, Otherwise go and eat wild mushrooms, tree bark, who cares? Let there be cake.

Before the last, there’s our interaction with the rest, and that’s currency and the central bank. Well, we have to hope that one’s being sorted, it ain’t rocket science. I mean, seriously it ain’t, even I understand it.

So finally our economy. Is it GERS? What some of us said back in the day was that the best thing the SNP majority Government could do is – Govern. To show that a capable government could look after Scotland, even with limited tools and devolution.

Things like the NHS, schools, universities, police and fire are mostly revenue DEL – that’s that part of the block grant. There’s capital DEL for all, a new hosptial, schools, but the within the limits of revenue DEL, there’s not much can be done about any of them – there are costs, they ahve to be paid, and that’s that.

But for the economy itself what can be done? Well, there’s APD which halving of will increase flights to Scotland and make business more competitive. Hop on a city hopper and go to London, Frankfurt, Paris, do some busines, come home. Then there’s trains,, well, even Network Rail have an ambitious improvement plan in place as part of the Scotrail alliance, as do Scotrail themeslves.

But hey, we now have a bloody great new fabulous bridge (I built) connecting Fife and Angus, and the east coast, there’s motorway all the way from Glasgow to Edinburgh for the first time ever, the A9 is getting dualled and a new section opened, and guess what? The SNP are telling us about it:

O/T this article in the National today was good. Why is called the ‘Battle of Tranent’ and not the ‘Tranent massacre’ which it actually was? Another example of the distortion of our history. Its good that theres a memorial in Tranent though.

@Lochside: “Wait too long and it’s very possible they’ll pull another snap stunt and pull us out of the EU without any deal ”

Don’t forget, as Macart pointed out in his National article, that has to be ratified by the UK Parliament, and receive Queen’s assent, leaving time for a snap Indy Ref to be held, and the EU asked to give us transistion time. That’s all that’s needed to counter that one.

Petra – Just read your post and by f/k the the brass neck and hypocrisy is beyond belief from Dugdale, her party down south who assisted the Tory party in passing the legislation that has led to these cuts, Then without batting an eyelid and at no time showing any sense of shame or Embarrassment she calls for the magic bloody money tree to finance out of thin air anything that comes to mind , she’s lining up behind her representatives of various churches to aid her, this while blatantly hiding the true story of her parties involvement , how low can this Labour Party in Scotland sink , trying to build up trouble to embarrass the Scottish Government on the back of a downright lie is disgusting and despicable , Then again its Labour in Scotland should we be surprised.
Her and her party need to be reminded of the one Billion pound legacy they left us in the shape of PFI , that’s where the money is going Kezia thanks to your bloody party.

Should the Scottish government try and mitigate Westminster policies or should they let Westminster policies apply on the grounds the people voted to have London run their affairs to get on with it.
They can only be mitigated with independence.
If the SG do mitigate London polices it must be in the most public way possible.
food kitchens, food bank support with Scottish Government carrier bags and leaflets included

“A “snap indyref” that also needs permission from the Commons and Lords to be held.”

No it doesn’t, but thanks for the opportunity to expand.

The Scottish Parliament can call a Referendum, and even if the Presiding Officer objects it’s not in the scope of parliament, he can be removed by a vote in parliament and a new one elected by majority vote.

Then the only way to stop that referendum legally is a court challengem in the Court of Sessions.

Meanwhile the UK Parliament somehow manages to get its vote past the DUP and Labour, LibDems and the SNP and rebel Tories to boot, but that is challenged in court by – the Scottish Government. So two related court cases, cases that relate to the UK Constitution itself.

And according to the wording of the Article 50, it has to be carried out according to the member state’s constitution. But that is a subject of court hearings IN the member state, so the EU can not accept the finalisation of Article 50 withdrawal of the UK, until that is resolved.

But at the weekend, BBC r4 gimps were boosting up Mrs May going after “boardroom excess,” even played some of the mad old trout’s speech to the greedy bastards, where she said that UKOK biz.com’s reputation had been dented. And then she said curbing boardroom excess would be one way of knocking out those dents.

Its easy to picture a hall full execs laughing like fcuk.

And tonight BBC r4 gimpery is using floods in Houston to boost up Orange Hitler. Its a toryboy world of neo fascist bbc media out here in teamGB.

What is so disturbing here? News like this isnt one bit surprising. Lets not forget , a barrel load of selfish shits voted for these moral corrupt bastards up here only a few months ago.

While the rotound mooth basks in the glory that the MSM bestows on her. They whole lot of them make me fucking sick.Scotland getting dragged out of Europe, more vulnerable people and family’s persecuted , their shame not ours.

I guess Corbyn was not best pleased to find hardly anyone anywhere to see him and to find out (presumably briefed by SLab) that all the stuff he had been telling the SNP to do had already been done. Not to forget the little matter of the impractitude of Scot’s law!

Basically speaking Scottish Labour haven’t backed her whatever she wanted to do. New faces in the elections – see Rev’s article at that time. Neutral on Indy? Didn’t happen. As a lone voice in the wilderness, I always thought she was better than her party.

You have to laugh at her comments, she took over when the party was on its knees, well great job Kezia now it’s on its back and on life support, there yah go job well done, Three cheers for the new leader , Eh what’s his name oh that dope from rutherglen , you know him sit down mr , leave the chamber mr , oh his name is on the sole of my shoe , I can see his baw face but nope it’s gone

Nicola will be one of Scotland`s greatest assets when we get Independence,she looks comfortable in any company from helping a group of kids with their reading to talking to the power brokers of the world,she has great empathy,

whereas Theresa May looks uncomfortable in any company almost on the sociopath scale of lack of empathy,don`t know enough about asperger syndrome to say she might qualify for suffering from it,

to be able to cause so much suffering and still function requires you to be lacking in mental and social compassion,

always thought Gordon Brown was either a sociopath or had asperger`s ,every emotion looks rehearsed not natural.

Duggers resigns!!, there will be an election coming before the end of the year.(mibees she had insider info??)
She has jumped before total embarrassment at the next GE.
God only knows who will replace her, as there are NO serious candidates in SLab.(Rowley? Mibees aye a while back) now? another waste of space.
Its another sorry mess that this country is bathing in, recent radio pish about the new bridge saviour “El Gordo” don’t be surprised if Crash gets fast tracked in to save Slab.
Paranoid!-Me?
Oh aye the new bridge, I drove past it today. I doff my cap to all involved, a thing of beauty.

Some great posts on here and no sign of ‘disruption’ from anyone – Fab.

Smallaxe thanks for posting the link. You’re a darling X

Dugdale’s gone! Seemingly to be covered on Radio Scotland / This Morning – tomorrow. Has the contents of Findlay’s book / first related article in the S Herald rattled her? Had enough of Stu exposing her? Or does it relate to the fact that she botched up Corbyn’s campaign with her non-stop SNP Baad bleats? What about the whispering of sweet nothings in her ear at bedtime followed by a No to Yes conversion, LOL!

Who’s up next? Rowley? Corbyn’s right hand man in Scotland? Corbyn’s ‘fond’ farewell to her as he heads south?

Always thought Kez was landed in a position above her experience and possibly ability. She rarely looked comfortable and flip/flopped too often to have instilled confidence in any intelligent supporters and she had a bad habit of digging deeper when she was down a hole.
There will now be an unseemly scrabble and back-stabbing among those who have coveted her job but have been too feart to attempt a coup.
Strangely enough the EBC seem to have been ready for her announcement with her ‘obituary’ all ready to dust down, dot some Is and cross some Ts and publish in minutes whereas it usually takes them hours to come out with a full story.
Her dad must be relieved now that she has taken herself out of the firing line.

Anyhow, given the circumstances, the poor wee lost lamb likeability, the potential upcoming conversion to the cause, maybe best to ask for the soft agreeable apology again, drrop the case, and be the bigger more generous and inclusive man.

Yes, a good old legal constitutional challenge by the SG is long overdue. It would really put a herd of cats among the proverbial Brexit pigeons. The powers-that-be in London might soon enough be begging us to quit the UK.

Kelly or Baillie would certainly provide entertainment but I am thinking that it will be a Corbynista. That most likely candidate has to be Findlay who is incapable of rising above the tribal and isn’t desperately nimble of thought or media friendly.

Outside runner is Anas but I think he might be too Blairite for the current Labour zeitgeist.

Thanks for that Ronnie. Brilliant and it fairly cheered me up. Just reminded me that it’s too late for the Union now as we’re NEVER going back in that box. More than anything they don’t have one that’s big enough.

Great to see Tommy Sheridan … and he’s looking good. One of the greatest politicians / orators that Scotland has ever seen, imo. As Kerevan has suggested we should all get together under the umbrella group SIC, as so much talent in Scotland is being wasted. When we do … come together as one … we’ll be a force to be reckoned with.

It’s not so much a question of who is gonna step up to lead the BLis mob down to fourth place at Holyrood and that London place without the “Bong”, -but- who will have the stomach and the guts to march in to FMQs on Thursdays for their weekly beating from the “Queen of the North”, Nicola Sturgeon. 🙂 🙂

@ ELGordo 11.28 . Are you feking serious having sympathy for that nasty woman Dugdale deserves every derision coming to her . She will still be taking money from the Public Purse for mis representing the Scottish People , she will still have her column in the daily Rancid to spout her lies & bile.

Save your sympathy for the more deserving people , that will be the Homeless & Poor People that she was party to keeping them Homeless & poor .

ElGordo @ 12.27
Being open and not hostile are indeed admiral traits ElGordo,
But and it’s a big But….
So is humanity…..and that’s what causes us to hesitate.
The woman took a position and drew from the public purse.
She had to know that Scots were at the very least better off out with this bloody Union,and,at most were suffering for still being a part of it.

Has she stood by…it would have been bad enough….but she enthusiastically did her up most to keep the Treaty enforced.

Now because I can remember another woman who found the dry docking of a boat more emotional than any human tragedy.
I don’t think that it’s too cynical to assume that it was not justifying austerity that was a bridge too far…..but rather claiming credit for a bridge that was a bridge too far?
Who knows?
Even so…. it’s the impression that she gives that leads me to believe that she has nae honour…and I canny welcome that.
I would rather that she demonstrate some and then I could rethink my position.
Until then, I can only think that she was always Old enough to know better!!

The new bridge is officially fab.
Drove over at the second attempt. Tried to time it for the rolling roadblock changeover, but ended up having to go to NQ on the old, bumpy bridge for a coffee and smoke under the first bridge.
The stay cables on the QC look like serious engineering up close.
Southbound wasn’t opened yet, so drove back over the old girl.
For the last time ever probs.

Ronnie , thank you for posting the photos – strikes me that every time we see pro indy rally photos that a bunch of happy smiley people are what we get , never a glum physog!

A big happy indy family.

As for the Kezia one resigning , I agree with Liz – she has done her best to undermine , she has done nothing to help those in need in fact she has blatantly hindered. Yet she wants to claim the good bits.( did you iron that T shirt??)

Would it not be wonderful if the person taking over had a wee brain and a sense of fair play ? Or has that all but vanished from the political opposition?

Are they unaware that the electorate gave them their position to work for Scotland and all who live here? The idea being they improve the lot of the population, not denigrate and undermine while stuffing their wee faces with everything they can grab?

Are they so unaware

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